A downtown section of Birmingham, Ala., including the church where four black girls were killed in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963, has been declared a national monument by President Obama.
The 16th Street Baptist Church will be the focal point of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Historical Park. The bombing, which also injured 22 other people, proved to be a turning point in the civil rights struggle.
In his order signed Thursday, a week before the end of his administration, Obama also designated two other sites central to the civil rights struggle as national monuments.
In Anniston, Ala., the new Freedom Riders National Monument includes the Greyhound Bus station where a bus carrying an interracial group of activists was attacked in 1961. Another site, the Reconstruction Era National Monument commemorating a post-Civil War community of freed slaves will be established in Beaufort County, S.C.
In a statement released by the White House, Obama said he is seeking to
“…preserve critical chapters of our country’s history from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. These monuments preserve the vibrant history of the Reconstruction Era and its role in redefining freedom. They tell the important stories of the citizens who helped launch the civil rights movement in Birmingham and the Freedom Riders whose bravery raised national awareness of segregation and violence. ”
~Snip!
Throwing a bone to blacks as he leaves, after putting a number of nails in inner city coffins.
so, what about that pile of garbage – I mean shrine in Ferguson, Barry?
^^^^^^^^
Raycisss!
He SOOO wants a race war, inflaming racial relations is all this POS ever thinks about.
It is understood that the most prominent street in each National Monument zone shall be renamed Obama Blvd. If that street is already named after MLKJ, it will be re-renamed “Obama King Blvd”.
“raised national awareness of segregation and violence”
now the blacks self segregate and commit all kinds of violence towards whites and themselves.
wow, some kind of “hope and change”, huh?
it really brought awareness, but what kind?
I find it instructive that no black shrine has prospered from private donations. In every case – including the MLK home in Atlanta – they have had to turn to government funding to exist. In the case of the MLK home it was because the kids raided all the donations leaving nothing to maintain the repair of the home.
@Thirdtwin, more like King Obama Blvd.
Are these on federally-owned land, or is the property being stolen from its rightful owner?
Obozo is just another in a long line of angry blacks that labor away daily to make this country into the place they complain it is. If Obozo wants monuments named after him, then lets start with public toilets.
How about a national designation for that slimy apartment where four African pustules kidnapped and tortured a disabled white boy. The dawning of a new era of civil rights where the oppressed majority throw off the yoke of virulent minority oppression!
Good to know Obama is finally doing something to foster harmony between the races, as opposed to the same old white guilt-mongering
Better late than never, right Barry?
A National Monument where Democrats killed black kids? Seems like an appropriate thing to do.
Just go away!
How about a monument to commemorate all the white victims of the knockout game? How about one for the 88 year old WW2 vet who was beaten to death in Spokane by a couple of ‘oppressed’ kids?
Reversible in 10 seconds with the stroke of a pen.
Obama actually deludes himself that Trump “wouldn’t dare” undo these last minute royal proclamations from Obama’s Fuhrerbunker.
That is pansy, schoolgirl, Lefty thinking.
Obama is in for the same rude awakening as all his fans.
@Left Coast Dan January 13, 2017 at 8:58 am
> Are these on federally-owned land, or is the property being stolen from its rightful owner?
Didn’t you read The Constitution? It’s all federally-owned land. That’s why their local managers can make up zoning rules. If you’re well behaved you can keep renting, at an ever increasing rate. But everything still belongs to FedGov. It’s right there in The Constitution.
Declaring his birthplace in Kenya a National Monument coming soon.
Kaminsky JANUARY 13, 2017 AT 11:44 AM
How about a monument to commemorate all the white victims of the knockout game? How about one for the 88 year old WW2 vet who was beaten to death in Spokane by a couple of ‘oppressed’ kids?”
You’re so right! Add the white girl burned to death and the two white teens brutally murdered in TX, the networks won’t even acknowledge.
And thousands more over the years that never get a seconds coverage on network news. But they have to keep profiting off the civil war.
Confederate memorials and flags have to be destroyed. Schools that refer to the southerners have to be renamed. Streets have to be renamed. Sports teams have to be renamed. If you erase the historical facts how will you claim victimhood in the future?